African American History: Chapter 3 Test

Which of the following prevented widespread conversion of slaves to Christianity before the 1730s?

Masters worried that conversion would be seen as a step toward freedom.

Which of the following was stipulated by slave codes passed in the Chesapeake between 1660 and 1710?

Slaves could not marry.

African styles of architecture were most common in __________.

South Carolina

In the late sixteenth century, the Netherlands sought independence from __________.

Spain

__________ was the first European nation to actively colonize the Americas.

Spain

Georgia was founded, in part, to serve as a buffer between South Carolina and __________.

Spanish Florida

Which of the following was true of the low country by 1740?

Black slaves made up 90 percent of the population in vicinity of Charleston.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, New Spain's North American borderlands had __________.

relatively few black people

During the colonial period, about _______ percent of southern female slaves were field workers.

90

Plantation slavery in Florida is closely associated with the arrival of the __________.

British

Nathanial Bacon was a(n) __________.

English aristocrat who had recently migrated to Virginia

Most southern slaves used technologies closely associated with __________.

cultivating and processing agricultural commodities

Maroon communities were made up of __________.

escaped slaves

Before 1750, nearly all slaves were __________.

field hands

Before the late eighteenth century, slaves' goal in resisting was to _________.

force concessions from masters

Miscegenation resulted in a(n) __________.

mixed-race population

Eighteenth-century slave quarters in the Chesapeake were typically __________.

small log cabins

Rice cultivation encouraged the development of the __________ system in the low country.

task

The Anasazi developed farming communities in __________.

the American Southwest

The preservation of __________ created the foundation for African-American culture.

the West African extended family

Which of the following best explains the growth in the slave population in the low country before 1750?

the arrival of new slaves from Africa

What was the main reason colonial assemblies banned interracial marriages?

to keep white women from having mixed-race children

What was the motive behind the establishment of Jamestown?

to make a profit

Growing demand for __________ led to the expansion of the slave labor system in the Chesapeake.

tobacco

Which of the following turned Jamestown into a profitable enterprise?

tobacco cultivation

New France can best be described as a _________.

trading empire

Indentured servants who worked on Chesapeake tobacco plantations sold their freedom for a number of years in exchange for __________.

transportation to North America

Anthony Johnson __________.

was a black man who became a planter and slave owner

Which of the following helps explain why the 32 people of African descent who arrived in Jamestown in the early seventeenth century were not considered slaves?

The English did not have a law establishing slavery.

Which of the following best characterizes the revolution that took place in the Chesapeake between 1640 and 1700?

The economy became dependent on black slave labor.

Beginning in the __________, historical records in Virginia suggest a tendency to view African Americans as slaves.

1640s

The indigenous peoples of North America migrated to the Americas from __________.

Asia

Which of the following cemented the connection between slavery and race in British North America?

Bacon's Rebellion

Most of the British settlers who settled in Charleston in 1670 came from __________.

Barbados

Which of the following statements best characterizes the relationship between African Americans and American Indians during the colonial period?

Indians and African Americans had a complex relationship.

__________ established England's claim to the east coast of North America.

John Cabot

Which of the following was closely associated with the Great Awakening?

Jonathan Edwards

Peru, __________, and Central America were home to densely populated civilizations.

Mexico

Which of the following was true of most slaveholders in the Chesapeake in the eighteenth century?

Most slaveholders owned five or fewer slaves.

Which of the following was true of slave life in the colonial period?

Rice was a key part of the diet of low country slaves.

Where did the majority of slaves in British North America live in 1750?

Virginia and Maryland

Which of the following was true of the Indian peoples of what is now the eastern portion of the United States?

Women often participated in ruling councils.

Which of the following helps explain why slavery was less extensive in the northern colonies than the southern colonies?

a cooler climate in the North

For most of the seventeenth century, __________.

black and white people worked side by side in tobacco fields in the Chesapeake colonies.

Which of the following contributed to the demise of the Mississippian culture?

climate change

The term (Miscegenation) refers to _________.

interracial sexual contact

Under chattel slavery, enslaved African Americans were the legal equivalents of __________.

livestock

Jupiter Hammon's poetry focused on _______ themes.

religious

Low-country plantations focused on the cultivation of __________.

rice

Tabby was used in _________.

the construction of houses